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Greetings once more - your favourite supplemental GAD fest is back again, taunting you with prizes you probably won't win like a carrot in front of a donkey. If you didn't love it, you wouldn't keep coming back.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
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ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> Write 'Special Reserve Discount Network' on hundreds of thousands of
> bricks, then hurl them through potential customers windows.
or.. write "from the great amazon website" on them. you know, build up a hatred.
> Write 'Special Reserve Discount Network' on hundreds of thousands of
> bricks, then hurl them through potential customers windows.
or.. write "from the great amazon website" on them. you know, build up a hatred.
orrr...some SR stickers to go on your window..or if you are crazy to put along the side of your car!
ßulle††™ wrote:
> phi11ip wrote:
> How about sponsoring snowflakes? Most of the country is being
> covered
> with them, having a little SR logo on them would be a great
> advertisment.
>
> Wouldn't that be a little tough to pull off?
Na, mass audience too. Lots of people will see them.
You'll make millions.
> phi11ip wrote:
> How about sponsoring snowflakes? Most of the country is being
> covered
> with them, having a little SR logo on them would be a great
> advertisment.
>
> Wouldn't that be a little tough to pull off?
Na, mass audience too. Lots of people will see them.
You'll make millions.
Give new customers a nice shiny SR badge to show off or a free SR T-shirt, so you can give it to a sexy girl to promote the company!
Write 'Special Reserve Discount Network' on hundreds of thousands of bricks, then hurl them through potential customers windows.
Advertise on day time TV.
I'm sorry but if local stair lift fitters can afford it then so can Tonty.
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Or do deals with local pizza places to have adverts/vouchers put onto their pizza boxes.
Just give the pizza place like a 10% discount.
I'm sorry but if local stair lift fitters can afford it then so can Tonty.
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Or do deals with local pizza places to have adverts/vouchers put onto their pizza boxes.
Just give the pizza place like a 10% discount.
Thats a great idea.
A monthly draw using membership numbers.
If your number comes up you win a GAD.
If your number comes up you win a GAD.
Try doing this deal. When someone buy 4 or more games they can select whatever DVD they want free.
The sagacious one wrote:
> The best way to advertise yourself cheaply would be to set up a
> website (such as Maddox.xMission) that attacts a huge amount of hits
> per day. Your banner of course will be in a prominent place. Of
> course you'll need someone (or people) to devote their time to making
> the site controversial (i.e slagg off Star Wars) and generate some
> interest but I bet it is possible...
Of course!
> The best way to advertise yourself cheaply would be to set up a
> website (such as Maddox.xMission) that attacts a huge amount of hits
> per day. Your banner of course will be in a prominent place. Of
> course you'll need someone (or people) to devote their time to making
> the site controversial (i.e slagg off Star Wars) and generate some
> interest but I bet it is possible...
Of course!
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